For the girls

Tonight we are going to one of my oldest - well - she is my age - not old at all :-) friends for dinner. They have three girls - Elin, Emma and Erika and I have prepared a gift with a Fiskars trimmer, design papers, cardstock, acrylic block, some stamps - purchased at the scrap event in Gothenburg etc. So my mission is to introduce these young girls into cardmaking - especially since their mom - my friend Lena - told me that they really love to paint and draw. So we'll see what they will think of the gift - I hope that my friend Lena will be hooked as well.....hihi...... For her husband we bring a nice bottle of wine:-)

I also needed to try out my bind-it-all machine that I purchased at the scrap event - so of course it turned out to be three note books for the young laides. I hope they will like them.

I have coloured them with SU markers, highlights with white gel pen and glitter, paper and ribbon from stash, rub-ons from SU and of course the lovely Melinda reading a book from Whiff of Joy. I have tried to get the right colour for each one of them, so that the girls will now which one belong to them. Elin's e is covered with mini-glass pearls. The other e:s are stickers from stash. Pearls from our local shop Pysselakuten.

Well - need to make myself 10 years younger - so off to the shower and the some magic make-up on.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Playing with the new stamps from Whiff of Joy

The new set of stamps from Whiff of Joy http://www.shop.whiffofjoy.com/ arrived earlier this week and of course I could not wait until I got the chance to play with them ;-) Unfortunately I am working 100% within the car-business during the day, so not much time left during the week for the fun things :-)

Anyway - here are some "quick" cards that I have been able to create during night-shift - when my husband and son are sleeping ;-) before I go to bed (need to have some beauty sleep though)

This time I wanted to make a card for a boy and therefore not too much blings etc + I thought the paper was "funky" enough....and Oakley is so cute all by himself....

I also wanted to make a X-mas card. This one is saying Julpussar till dig = X-mas kisses to you.

I added on glitter + my new mini glass pearls that I bought at the scrap event. You take 3d-glue and then add the pearls. Hope you can see that there are some in hear ribbon and also on the heart. (Close up above)

And finally I wanted to make a card with Melinda hugging heart. Here I thought the paper with all the nice words like love, joy, hope etc would speak for itself. Therefore I only added the Bundle of love sent from above from SU and a ribbon. Here I also used my new mini-glass pearls in Melinda's ribbon.

Well - I hope you like them. Working late at night does not give you the best light when shooting the photos, but hopefully - if you click on them - you can see them a little bit sharper.

All cards are coloured with SU markers. Ribbon and buttons from stash. Paper purchased at the scrap event in Gothenburg and some from stash.

God Natt & dröm sött (Good night & sweet dreams)

Anki

Don't miss this blog candy

at Suzanne's blog http://scrapbitz.blogspot.com/2008/09/angel-of-blog-candy.html
You have the chance to win this lovely kit containing one of the new Whiff of Joy stamps.
By the way - Suzanne wanted to know as well what the favourit movie is and why? Well - mine must be Dirty Dancing - I can see it over and over again and it is such a great movie for those Rainy days. A more recent movie is of course Mamma Mia! Growing up with Abba - being a dark version of Agneta when we performed in front of a small audience........well if you have not seen that movie - go now. You will love it! You will be so happy when you leave the cinema and during the movie - you will feel like singing. And also - who can resist Pierce Brosnan ;-))
Kram
Anki

Friday Sketchers - sketch no 18

Tired after two days at the Nordic stamp and scrap event in Gothenburg - well not enough tired apparently:-)) - I needed to try some of my new stuff on the card for the Friday Sketchers - no 18 http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/ :-)

Since it is so late - the dark green cardstock almost look black on the photo, but it's green in real life...

Paper purchased yesterday at the scrap event, Ribbons from stash, Charlie from Whiff of Joy - coloured with SU markers and highlighted with white gel pen, snow flakes and snow balls covered some with Flower Soft and with mini-glass pearls (hope you can see it). Text "Se det snöar" (- look it's snowing) put together with my new magnetic stamp from http://www.makingmemories.com/ - purchased today at the scrap event (I have been looking for this for ever - but no Swedish store have had them - so Finally!!!

Well -need to go to bed now, but I bought some more things at the event - like a "bind-it-all" - so new projects will soon be released ;-))

Natti, natti

Anki

Thank you ladies

You've made my day! Rach http://papercraftsbyrach.blogspot.com/ & Marlene http://mar1ene.wordpress.com/- you are such great new blog-friends and I feel much better now after your kind words. Marlene - of course I can hold a Swedish course on my blog ;-))
Lesson no 1: Sov så gott och ha en bra helg! (Sweet dreams and have a nice weekend)

Kramar
Anki

PS. I promise to let you know how the Nordic stamp and scrap event turned out.

Cute Card Thursday - Pretty in Pink

This was a fun, but difficult challenge from Cute Card Thursday http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/- I have a lot of pink papers, but how to combine them so that the card does not look too pale, boring or "flat" - if you know what I mean. Well - here's the result. I am satisfied, but not extatic about it though.. Feels like something is missing. I wanted to find a band-aid - to put on the card as well - but nope - all are gone (I better not injure myself with the Fiskars trimmer...hihi.....)

Stamp from Magnolia http://www.magnolia.nu/ , coloured with SU markers and highlighted with white gel pen + glitter. Paper from our local shop - Pysselakuten and some from SU. Ribbon from stash.

Hope you'll like it. Now I am going to take a long nice bath, since I am feeling a little bit frozen (hopefully I am not coming down with a virus.... I do not have the time - tomorrow is the big Nordic stamp and scrap event in Gothenburg - both Saturday and Sunday. Guess who is ready to do some more shopping??!! ;-))

Wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Anki

Got a late order

yesterday evening and the deadline was this afternoon. I did not think I would be able to finish it in time - working full time during the day and arriving home after 16.30 this afternoon. But somehow I did and she was very pleased with how it turned out. I guess criss-cross cards are great in that way - you do not need much to make it look nice.... I did not want it to be too decorated - just to make sure that she had enough space to write her personal birthday greeting.

Paper from SU http://www.stampinup.com/us/enu/default.asp, text stamps from SU, ribbon and pearls from stash, Sugar Nellie with flower from Funky Kits http://www.funkykits.co.uk/catalog/. She is coloured with SU markers and then of course some glitter :-) QK alphabet Eliza.

By the way - you have not forgot to order the Guardian Angel and Willow & Oakley collection by Elisabeth Bell that are available at Whiff of Joy http://www.shop.whiffofjoy.com/ I have already ordered them all, so guess if I am going to look in my mailbox every day from now - waiting for them to arrive....hihi....

Have a nice evening everyone,

Anki